I've been having trouble getting my ASP.NET application to automatically log users into the Intranet site I'm building. No matter the googling or the experimentation I applied, there is always a login box displayed by IE7. I've got Windows authentication mode set in the Web.config, disabled anonymous access and configured the correct d...
I'm working on a spec for a piece of software for my company and as part of the auditing system I think it would be neat if there was a way to grab the current Active Directory user. Hopefully something like: Dim strUser as String strUser = ActiveDirectory.User() MsgBox "Welcome back, " & strUser ...
I'm trying to set the group type for a new Active Directory Entry via VB.NET and DirectoryServices to create a distribution list. How do I access the ADS_GROUP_TYPE enumerations? Specifically I'm after ADS_GROUP_TYPE_GLOBAL_GROUP. ...
I'm trying to run powershell commands through a web interface (ASP.NET/C#) in order to create mailboxes/etc on Exchange 2007. When I run the page using Visual Studio (Cassini), the page loads up correctly. However, when I run it on IIS (v5.1), I get the error "unknown user name or bad password". The biggest problem that I noticed was tha...
I'm missing something here: $objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $objSearcher.SearchRoot = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $objSearcher.Filter = ("(objectclass=computer)") $computers = $objSearcher.findall() So the question is why do the two following outputs differ? $computers...
I am creating a program that will be installed using the .net installer project. The program writes to settings files to its directory in the Program Files dir. It believe there are some active directory settings that will prevent the application from righting to that directory if a limited user is running the program. Is there away to c...
I am trying to implement NTLM authentication on one of our internal sites and everything is working. The one piece of the puzzle I do not have is how to take the information from NTLM and authenticate with Active Directory. There is a good description of NTLM and the encryption used for the passwords, which I used to implement this, but...
Does anyone know (in c#) a way of getting the available NT4 domains (a bit like the WinXP login box dropdown)? I know that this is fairly easy for Active Directory using the DirectoryServices namespace, but I can't find anything for the old NT4 domains. I'd rather not use API calls if at all possible (that might be asking a bit much ho...
I'm looking for a way to find a the windows login associated with a specific group. I'm trying to add permissions to a tool that only allows names formatted like: DOMAIN\USER DOMAIN\GROUP I have a list of users in active directory format that I need to add: ou=group1;ou=group2;ou=group3 I have tried adding DOMAIN\Group1, but I get a...
In one of my applications, I am querying active directory to get a list of all users below a given user (using the "Direct Reports" thing). So basically, given the name of the person, it is looked up in AD, then the Direct Reports are read. But then for every direct report, the tool needs to check the direct reports of the direct reports...
I have only just started received the following error in my windows forms application under dot net 2 framework on windows 2000 when using System.DirectoryServices. {System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException} System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: {"Library not registered."} _className: Nothing _COMPlusExceptionCode: -532459...
I writing a web site that uses Active Directory to validate users. I don't have access to an Active Directory instance that I can edit in any way. I've heard that some people are using Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) to create AD data to be used in Unit and Integration Testing. Has anyone else done this? Are the any good site/...
I am pretty sure that the settings that I am using are correct, so all possible things can be wrong which I should check out so that I can make authentication with our Active Directory work. ...
We have an ASP.NET application running at a customer site that uses ActiveDirectory for user login via the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider. Their primary domain controller that we were pointing to went down this morning, and in getting everything set back up the client was wondering if we could have a redundant connection to two domain...
How can my app get a valid "last time connected to domain" timestamp from Windows, even when the app is running offline? Background: I am writing an application that is run on multiple client machines throughout my company. All of these client machines are on one of the AD domains implemented by my company. This application needs to t...
I have a SharePoint virtual machine in one active directory domain (for example domain1) and I want to transfer all the sites it has to another active directory domain (domain2). I don’t know which could be the best procedure to do this, if I detach and attach my virtual machine from domain1 to domain2 it probably didn’t work since all t...
How do I move an active directory group to another organizational unit using Powershell? ie. I would like to move the group "IT Department" from: (CN=IT Department, OU=Technology Department, OU=Departments,DC=Company,DC=ca) to: (CN=IT Department, OU=Temporarily Moved Groups, DC=Company,DC=ca) ...
How would you implement a system with the following objectives: Manage authentication, authorization for hundreds of thousands of existing users currently tightly integrated with a 3rd party vendor's application (We want to bust these users out into something we manage and make our apps work against it, plus our 3rd party vendors work ...
I'm writing a Spring web application that requires users to login. My company has an Active Directory server that I'd like to make use of for this purpose. However, I'm having trouble using Spring Security to connect to the server. I'm using Spring 2.5.5 and Spring Security 2.0.3, along with Java 1.6. If I change the LDAP URL to the ...
How can I optimize the following code, which currently takes over 2 minutes to retrieve and loop through 800+ records from a pool of over 100K records, returning 6 fields per record (adds approximately 20 seconds per additional field): <cfset dllPath="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\System.DirectoryServices.dll" /> <cfset L...